Nu metal (also called aggro metal, or nü metal using the traditional heavy metal umlaut) is a musical genre that has origins in the mid 1990s. It typically fuses influences from the grunge and alternative metal of the early 1990s with hip hop, electronic music and other metal genres, most often thrash metal and groove metal. The popularity and perceived vast commercialization [1] of such music in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to widespread negative associations with the term nu metal, which in turn led to many fans and artists rejecting it.
And Alice in Chains was a huge King's X rip-off band. Probably the worst offender in that regard, and they never did give Ty, Doug and Jerry their proper respects for that either.
And King's X ripped off the Beatles, U2, and Cheap Trick....
Arkface wrote:korn isn't nu metal. nu metal would be limp bizkit, linkin park, godsmack, as i lay dying, just about every fort wayne metal band, etc. you have to be fairly metal to be nu metal, not just really bad hard rock with more distortion than normal. nu metal would be like 99% of what's on headbanger's ball (if you have cable). nu metal is not dead. in fact, just the opposite. it became what ya'll know as metal. and i weep.
Sorry, duder, Korn is the nu-metal prototype. Just like the bands you listed, who stole so much from them.
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And Alice in Chains was a huge King's X rip-off band. Probably the worst offender in that regard, and they never did give Ty, Doug and Jerry their proper respects for that either.
And King's X ripped off the Beatles, U2, and Cheap Trick....
I don't think I would use the term "ripped off" regarding King's X, and I know you were only kidding. Seriously, they have to be the most underrated band ever. "Metal for people who can read." I still can't figure out why they didn't become one of the biggest bands ever. Maybe they were too smart for the metal heads, and too metal for the educated types who would have dug their lyrics, I don't know. I just know I love their music.
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Massage...Bored wrote:Sorry, duder, Korn is the nu-metal prototype. Just like the bands you listed, who stole so much from them.
Prototype doesn't necessarily equivilate (No, that's not a word). A lot of nu-metal bands base their sound on bands that aren't nu-metal, that's just the progression of things. Chronologically, Korn was way before nu-metal. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
And how did Alice in Chains rip off King's X? Could you explain that one better?
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While Deftones, P.O.D., Korn and Limp Bizkit are typically cited as the genre's instigators, bands like Fishbone, Body Count, Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Helmet, and others are also proclaimed as progenitors. Linkin Park is the best selling nu metal act with 35 million copies sold out of their first two full-lengths (Hybrid Theory and Meteora) and of the collateral remixes and live albums. Producer Ross Robinson was labelled by some as "The Godfather of Nu Metal" due to his producing of several notable Nu Metal albums. Nu metal bands also typically claim influence by more conventional metal acts, particularly Black Sabbath; it also has some sonic similarity with death metal as well as thrash metal bands like Metallica and Megadeth [3]. Entertainment!, the 1979 debut from British post-punk group Gang of Four has been cited as an indirect influence. Critic Andy Kellman suggests that the album's "vaguely funky rhythmic twitch, its pungent, pointillistic guitar staccattos, and its spoken/shouted vocals have all been picked up by many."
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